19th Asian Men’s Handball Championship kicks off
KUWAIT CITY, Jan 15, (KUNA): The 19th Asian Men’s Handball Championship (AMHC) will kick off in Kuwait Thursday under the patronage of His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah.
The competitions will take place in the main hall of the Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Complex for Indoor Sports at Sabah Al-Salem area, with the participation of 13 teams.
The first group will include Bahrain,
New York scored three times in the first eight minutes. The league-worst Red Wings were out of it early, and Thomas Greiss made 34 saves to back the Islanders.
Jordan Eberle, Josh Bailey and Nelson chased Detroit goalie Jimmy Howard with their three early goals. Calvin Pickard relieved and stopped 14 of 19 shots.
Anders Lee, Anthony Beauvillier, Noah Dobson and Leo Komarov also scored for the Islanders.
Filip Hronek and Givani Smith scored for Detroit.
Lightning 4, Kings 3, SO In Tampa, Florida, Nikita Kucherov scored late to force overtime and Steven Stamkos delivered the game-deciding goal in a shootout as Tampa Bay rallied to beat Los Angeles.
Brayden Point also beat Kings goalie Jonathan Quick in the shootout, helping the Lightning rebound from a 2-1 loss to New Jersey that stopped Tampa Bay’s franchise record-tying 10-game winning streak on Sunday.
Stamkos and Alex Killorn also scored in regulation for the Lightning, who overcame deficits of 2-0 and 3-2. Kucherov’s 18th goal of the season made it 3-3 with 1:15 remaining in the third period.
Quick stopped 35 of 38 shots for Los Angeles, which took a 3-2 lead when Dustin Brown scored on the power play at 12:00 of the third.
Tampa Bay’s Andrei Vasilevskiy, who blanked the Arizona Coyotes and Philadelphia Flyers in his previous two starts, finished with 38 saves.
Maple Leafs 7, Devils 4 In Toronto, Auston Matthews had his first hat trick since scoring four times in his NHL debut and Toronto beat New Jersey.
John Tavares scored as part of a threepoint night for the Leafs and Rasmus Sandin had two assists in his first game since getting called up from the minors to help reinforce the injury-riddled defense corps. William Nylander and Zach Hyman each had a goal and an assist, and Frederik Gauthier had the other goal for Toronto (2516-6), which entered winless in its previous three games. Mitch Marner chipped in with two assists.
Frederik Andersen made 24 saves for the Leafs.
Blake Coleman, with his first-career hat trick, and P.K. Subban scored for New Jersey. Will Butcher had three assists. Louis Domingue allowed five goals on 19 shots before getting yanked midway through the second period. Veteran backup Cory Schneider finished with 13 saves.
Blackhawks 3, Senators 2, OT In Ottawa, Ontario, Jonathan Toews scored 42 seconds into overtime and assisted on Chicago’s two other goals in a win over Ottawa.
Dominik Kubalik added a pair of goals for the Blackhawks. Robin Lehner stopped 20 shots.
Connor Brown and Chris Tierney scored first-period goals for the Senators. Rookie goaltender Marcus Hogberg started in net for the third straight game and made 27 saves.
Iran and New Zealand. The second group: Qatar, Japan and China. The third group will gather Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Australia. Meanwhile, the fourth one will include Kuwait, Hong Kong, Iraq and UAE.
Tomorrow’s matches will feature Kuwait against Iraq, UAE will play against Hong Kong, while Bahrain will face New Zealand.
Qatar will meet China, while Australia will play against South Korea.
Jets 4, Canucks 0 In Winnipeg, Manitoba, Kyle Connor scored twice, Connor Hellebuyck made 41 saves in his fourth shutout of the season, and Winnipeg snapped a six-game home losing streak with a win over Vancouver.
It was the 18th shutout of Hellebuyck’s career and gave him the franchise record for shutouts, surpassing Ondrej Pavelec.
Jack Roslovic and Blake Wheeler also had a goal each and Patrik Laine picked up a pair of assists for the Jets, who have won their past 10 games against Vancouver.
Jacob Markstrom stopped 21 of the 24 shots he faced for the Canucks, who have been shut out three times this season.
Stars 3, Avalanche 2
Kuwait Handball Association organized training camps for the national team in Germany and Serbia, and held friendly matches against Macedonia and Kosovo.
Kuwait won the championship title four times: 1995, 2002, 2004 and 2006 and hosted it twice in 1977 and 1995.
Four teams out of this tournament will qualify for the 2021 World Men’s Handball Championship, to be held in Egypt.
In Denver, Esa Lindell scored 1:54 into overtime after Jason Dickinson tied the game late in regulation and Dallas put the finishing touches on a season series sweep of Colorado.
Lindell found himself all alone in the middle of the ice and sent a wrist shot past Philipp Grubauer as the Stars rallied from an early two-goal deficit.
Dickinson tied the game for the Stars with 5:23 remaining on a backhand shot. Denis Gurianov also scored in the fourth and final meeting between the Central Division adversaries. The Stars captured the season series 4-0.
Ben Bishop stopped 41 shots in a game in which the Avalanche hit at least three posts.
Gabriel Landeskog and Nikita Zadorov had goals for the Avalanche, with Nathan MacKinnon assisting on both.
Coyotes 6, Sharks 3 In Glendale, Arizona, Phil Kessel and Taylor Hall each scored twice to lift Arizona over San Jose.
Lawson Crouse and Conor Garland also scored, and Garland and Derek Stepan had three points each. Arizona ended a three-game skid and has won four of five home games. Adin Hill stopped 25 of 28 shots.
Kevin Labanc, Timo Meier and Evander Kane scored for the Sharks, who are 4-2-1 in their last seven games. Labanc and Kane had an assist each, and Aaron Dell had 34 saves.
Oilers 4, Predators 2 In Edmonton, Alberta, Leon Draisaitl had two goals and an assist and Edmonton beat Nashville.
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Josh Archibald also scored, and Connor McDavid picked up three assists for the Oilers, who are 5-1-1 in their last seven.
Filip Forsberg and Colin Blackwell scored for Nashville, which had its twogame winning streak halted.